TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. 133 



Remarks of Visiting Delegates. 



President Rogers: We will ha\e to close the (|uestion 

 discussion. We have a gentleman here from Wisconsin, and 

 also have his son living in our state, one of the larger or- 

 chardists, a young" man that has started and is l)uilding up 

 an apple industry, according to my judgment, that is going 

 to be one of the orchards in the state. I have the pleasure 

 of introducing to you for a short address, Prof. W. A. Henry.' 



Prof. W. A. Henry, of Winconsin : Mr. President, I 

 did not expect to say anything to this audience, and what I 

 have to say is from a strict sense of duty. I believe I can set 

 some of you to thinking about what seems to me to be a very 

 serious problem to the agricultural interests. 



President Taft has recommended a reciprocity treaty 

 with Canada, in which we shall accept in this country, free of 

 all duty, the agricultural products of Canada. In exchange, 

 we are to let in free of all duty, and they are to allow to come 

 in, paper pulp and a few other articles, but mostly agricul- 

 tural articles. Now this reciprocity treaty is being very 

 adroitly handled. The manufacturers of New England, of 

 course, want their operatives to get the cheapest possible 

 food. The president says we are going to get agricultural 

 products free of duty, and we are going to keep up practical- 

 ly our protection for all manufactured articles, that is what 

 he says. Free agricultural products to come into America, but 

 everything that is manufactured, we must pay duties on the 

 same as before, excepting paper pulp and a few things. 



Now, the president seems to forget that the farmer is 

 just as much a manufacturer as anybody, and that apples and 

 potatoes and peaches and wheat and pork are manufactured 

 products just as much as wire nails or anything else. Now, 

 Farmers, do you realize what Canadian farmers pay now? 

 The price of shipping a ton of bay is, and he now pays $4 

 a ton duty; he pays 75 cents duty on a barrel of apples, he 

 pay five cents a dozen on eggs, he pays 25 cents a bushel on 



